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Reliability KB · One Knowledge Base, Three Lenses

We compress equipment-reliability knowledge (failure modes · standard basis · historical accidents · field tasks) into artifacts a field engineer can use standing in front of the unit — and explain, from first principles, the closed loop that connects them. Static, offline-ready, mobile-friendly, bilingual.

54Equipment
1035FMs
69Accidents
中/ENBilingual

First Principles: reliability has only three irreducible primitives

The root question of reliability is one sentence: equipment fails. It branches into three questions that must be answered—why does it fail (mechanism)? what happened when it did (evidence)? what do we do so it won't (action)?

These map to three irreducible knowledge primitives, and to three tenses of knowledge:

🔧 Action

The field task that prevents or mitigates the mechanism — inspection, monitoring, maintenance. The future / preventive tense.

⚠️ Evidence

A concrete accident where the mechanism manifested — dated, sourced, verifiable. The past tense.

🔗 Mechanism

The failure mode itself — the universal structure of how it fails. Equipment-agnostic. The present / structural tense.

The hub = Failure Mode (FM) — Every accident is an instance of some failure modes; every field task is an intervention against some failure modes. Thus A (action) and B (evidence) meet at C (mechanism) — this is the core of the three-way relationship.

One source of truth, three projections

Behind all three is one ontology: equipment → subsystem → component → failure mode. A/B/C are just projections keyed differently:

Relationship diagram (static structure)

accident is an instance of FM FM mitigated by field task intervention prevents recurrence Accident B · 69 Field A · 54 Failure Mode C · 1035

Failure mode (C) sits at the hub; accidents (B) are its real-world instances, field tasks (A) are its preventive interventions, and A in turn prevents B from recurring.

Three module entries · whole card clickable

Every card is a verifiable knowledge artifact; click any card to enter the bilingual library.

Action · Future

Field Card

54 类设备 · 108 张中英

Bilingual field guidance for all equipment types, usable right in front of the unit.

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Evidence · Past

Accident Card

69 起事故 · 138 张中英

Real accident investigations (CSB / NUREG / China Emergency Mgmt / CCPS) with official source links.

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Mechanism · Present

FM Traceability Card

1035 FM · 2070 张中英

Traceability chain for failure modes: FM → evidence → accident → standard → derived analysis.

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Online samples · one card per lens

One representative card for each knowledge lens (action / evidence / mechanism); open to see that module's real artifact.

Action · Future

Shell-and-Tube Heat Exchanger E-101

Field Card

Bilingual field guidance usable right at the unit: a risk board; each FM paired with mechanism / detection / remedy / standard / accident.

Evidence · Past

R.E. Ginna Nuclear Plant Turbine Trip

Accident Card

Real accident investigation: lube-oil piping fatigue fracture caused a reactor trip; NRC source link and structured root cause.

Mechanism · Present

K-101 Bearing Oil Starvation / Babbitt Burn

FM Traceability Card

FM traceability chain: mechanism → source → evidence → linked accident → standard → derived analysis, all in one card.

One closed loop, worked: Steam Turbine K-101

Above is the static relationship; below, a real K-101 case connects A / B / C in the actual flow — note the node numbers ARE the traversal order ①B → ②C → ③A.

Equipment: Steam Turbine K-101 · same unit, same failure mode (bearing oil starvation / babbitt burn)
exposes mechanism guides action prevents recurrence ① Evidence B · 69 起 ② Mechanism C · 1035 ③ Action A · 54 类

Traverse clockwise: Accident(B) → Mechanism(C) → Action(A) → (intervention prevents) Accident(B). Each node is clickable, linking to its card.

1
Accident(B) exposes Mechanism(C): Ginna's lube-oil piping fatigue fracture tripped the reactor; RCA pinned the root cause to the failure mode bearing oil starvation / babbitt burn — a concrete event abstracted into a general mechanism.
2
Mechanism(C) guides Action(A): from that mechanism we derive the remedies — oil-quality monitoring, bearing temperature / vibration inspection, lube-oil system integrity checks. The mechanism tells us what to do.
3
Action(A) prevents Accident(B) from recurring: those tasks are executed on K-101, catching the mechanism before it becomes an accident — the next unit does not repeat the failure. Action feeds back and blocks new accidents.

This is the loop 'learn from accidents → distill mechanism → convert to action → block recurrence' — and the essence of the A/B/C relationship: not three parallel pipelines, but one self-reinforcing learning cycle.

Why it belongs on a product page

Every card is a verifiable knowledge artifact, not marketing talk.

📶 Offline-ready

Pure static single file, zero CDN, zero web-font links; opens with no network, works on-site with no signal.

📱 Mobile-friendly

Touch targets ≥44px, large fonts, pure-CSS paging; opens instantly in WeChat / WeCom.

🌐 Bilingual

Each device has Chinese / English versions; standard IDs and accident report numbers keep international codes for export.

🔗 Traceable

Standard basis down to clause; historical accidents carry official source links (CSB / NRC) for one-click verification.

Overall knowledge coverage

覆盖仪表盘 · 54 设备 / 1035 失效模式

标准覆盖 100.0% · 事故挂载 59.4% · 含诚实缺口标注

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